trees sprout. The count's mother orders the trees to be felled and to make a bed for her. The bedposts talk to each other and does not let their grandmother sleep, so she orders the bed to be burnt down. Two sparks fly out of the pyre and are swallowed by a sheep, which foals two golden lambs after a while. The count's mother feigns illness and wants the lambs slaughtered as remedy for her, and their innards to be washed in the river. Her orders are carried out, but a raven steals the innards. Some time later, the golden-haired twins regain human form and meet their father. Linguist Erich Karl Berneker translated the tale into German as Vom Grafen und seiner bösen Mütter and sourced it from the Kajkavian dialect. Bulgaria The Bulgarian Folktale Catalogue, published by scholar Liliana Daskalova, registers a similar narrative as a regional subtype of type 707, indexed as *707D, "Деца със златни коси и сребърни зъби", or "Kinder mit goldenen Haaren und silbernen Zähnen" ("Children with Golden Hair and Silver Teeth"). In this subtype, the third sister promises to bear children with wonderful attributes, who are taken from her as soon as they are born and buried in the garden. On the children's graves sprout two trees with golden leaves and golden fruits. The twins then continue to pass through a cycle of reincarnations (from trees to lambs and lastly to humans again). In a Bulgarian variant, "Дети воеводы" ("The Voivode's Children"), three sisters of marriageable age, while spinning under the moonlight near the mill, comment among themselves what they can do if they marry the voivode's son. The youngest answers she will bear him twin boys with golden hair and silver teeth. The voivode's son marries the youngest and becomes voivode. When the times comes, the queen's sisters insist they be brought to the palace to help in labor. The eldest sister, envious of her fortune and marriage, takes both boys as soon as they are born, kills them, buries them in the garden, while putting two puppies in their place to further humiliate the queen. The voivode banishes her to a hut near a lake and marries her elder sister. Two trees with silver leaves and golden flowers sprout on the children's graves. When taking a stroll in the garden, both trees lean forward to caress the father with their leaves and